From: NeilBrown This allows udev to do something intelligent when an array becomes available. Cc: Greg KH Signed-off-by: Neil Brown Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/md/md.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff -puN drivers/md/md.c~md-send-online-offline-uevents-when-an-md-array-starts-stops drivers/md/md.c --- a/drivers/md/md.c~md-send-online-offline-uevents-when-an-md-array-starts-stops +++ a/drivers/md/md.c @@ -3200,6 +3200,7 @@ static int do_md_run(mddev_t * mddev) mddev->changed = 1; md_new_event(mddev); + kobject_uevent(&mddev->gendisk->kobj, KOBJ_ONLINE); return 0; } @@ -3313,6 +3314,7 @@ static int do_md_stop(mddev_t * mddev, i module_put(mddev->pers->owner); mddev->pers = NULL; + kobject_uevent(&mddev->gendisk->kobj, KOBJ_OFFLINE); if (mddev->ro) mddev->ro = 0; } _